The idiom, blue eyed boy or blue eyed
girl, refers to a someone who is liked, admired and often favoured by
someone in authority. It is an expression more often used in Britain
and Australia than in American English, and is often used with a
derogatory or envious tone of voice and/or feelings of resent.

Where am I going with this, you might
ask....?

I do have blue eyes and I have never
asked myself why? No one else in my immediate family have blue eyes
and neither of my two sons have blue eyes. They, like their mother,
have brown eyes.

It was when I was researching something completely different I found the article I have re-published below and felt I had to share it. I'm sure all the other blue-eyed babes out there will find this very interesting. Hopefully, the rest of you normal people will as well.

You see, all of us with blue eyes are,
in fact, mutants.

On January 31st, 2008,
Science Daily released this:

Blue-eyed humans have a single,
common ancestor

Source: University of Copenhagen

“New research shows that people with
blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of
Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place
6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all
blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.”

What is the genetic mutation

"Originally, we all had brown
eyes," said Professor Hans Eiberg from the Department of
Cellular and Molecular Medicine. "But a genetic mutation
affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation
of a "switch," which literally "turned off" the
ability to produce brown eyes." The OCA2 gene codes for the
so-called P protein, which is involved in the production of melanin,
the pigment that gives colour to our hair, eyes and skin. The
"switch," which is located in the gene adjacent to OCA2
does not, however, turn off the gene entirely, but rather limits its
action to reducing the production of melanin in the iris --
effectively "diluting" brown eyes to blue. The switch's
effect on OCA2 is very specific therefore. If the OCA2 gene had been
completely destroyed or turned off, human beings would be without
melanin in their hair, eyes or skin colour -- a condition known as
albinism.

Limited genetic variation

Variation in the colour of the eyes
from brown to green can all be explained by the amount of melanin in
the iris, but blue-eyed individuals only have a small degree of
variation in the amount of melanin in their eyes. "From this we
can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same
ancestor," says Professor Eiberg. "They have all inherited
the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA."
Brown-eyed individuals, by contrast, have considerable individual
variation in the area of their DNA that controls melanin production.

Professor Eiberg and his team examined
mitochondrial DNA and compared the eye colour of blue-eyed
individuals in countries as diverse as Jordan, Denmark and Turkey.
His findings are the latest in a decade of genetic research, which
began in 1996, when Professor Eiberg first implicated the OCA2 gene
as being responsible for eye colour.

Nature shuffles our genes

The mutation of brown eyes to blue
represents neither a positive nor a negative mutation. It is one of
several mutations such as hair colour, baldness, freckles and beauty
spots, which neither increases nor reduces a human's chance of
survival. As Professor Eiberg says, "it simply shows that nature
is constantly shuffling the human genome, creating a genetic cocktail
of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does so."

END

You can read the whole article at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm

When you now watch a horror/science-fiction movie that feature mutants they had better all have blue eyes otherwise they are not really mutants, unlike me. I am the real thing!!